Poets & Writers Theater
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“It was sodden daylight. The rain had stopped, but she could hear water dripping off things.” In this Stony Brook University virtual event, Elizabeth McCracken reads from her new story collection, The Souvenir Museum (Ecco, 2021), which is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Fiction | Elizabeth McCracken | The Souvenir Museum | Ecco | 2021 | Stony Brook University | Page One | May/June 2021 -
"A novel is a historic reenactment and a short story is a diorama." Elizabeth McCracken discusses the different challenges of writing a novel and a short story, and reads from her latest collection of short stories, Thunderstuck (Dial Press, 2014), at the 2014 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. McCracken will deliver the keynote on January 9 at Poets & Writers Live in Austin, Texas.
Tags: 2014 | reading | talk | Poets & Writers Live | Austin, Texas | Elizabeth McCracken | National Book Festival | Thunderstruck | Fiction
